Sometimes, fame is trickier to handle than the bright lights and glamour would have you believe.
It can be easy to forget that at their core, famous people are still just that people.
I didn’t have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.
I am not quite sure why, but I never felt the need to lie to them.
I never hid anything."
Takethe stunning transformation of Josh Hartnett, for example.
However, for Matt Damon, it wasn’t quite so easy.
“We were so broke, we had no credit score, we had nothing.
So people were like, ‘We can’t rent to you,'” Damon explained.
They showed it proudly to potential landlords as a way of saying they were good for the rent.
Eventually, one landlord believed them.
They managed to land an apartment, but it was no easy task.
He was 27 when his big break finally came.
In aReddit AMAa few years back, Damon was asked what his most challenging role was.
“I had to run about 13 miles a day which wasn’t even the hard part.
The hard part was the diet, all I ate was chicken breast.”
In 2023, he toldPeoplethat when he started getting recognition, he struggled with it initially.
“I think the shock of becoming famous is so …
Multiple stars will tell you just how tricky a beast fame can be!
As cinemagoers may remember, it went to Australian actor Sam Worthington instead.
“I was offered a little movie called Avatar,” explained the A-lister.
“I will go down in history.
You will never meet an actor who turned down more money than me.”
I’ve probably done, like, 50 movies.
I’ve never been in a movie that made $1 billion.”
He said yes to our movie and he got it made.
I could never thank him enough."
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Kent always looked thrilled to be supporting his son (as pictured above).
Before his father’s death, Damon previously spoke toExtraand explained the situation was drawn out.
“It’s been a slow unfolding.
My dad’s sick, so that’s a process we’re going through,” he said.
“We’ll take any prayers you got, so throw ‘em up there.”
There wasn’t a dry eye in the house including Damon.
I said, ‘I retire the F-slur!’
I understood," he explained.
I do not use slurs of any kind," he said in a statement toVariety.
Despite seemingly clearing up the confusion, other public figures like comedian Billy Eichner quickly called the actor out.
Would Matt Damon be sad for his buddy, or secretly elated?
He hates what she’s done to the free-spirited buddy he used to know.
